Swinglowandslow
Well-known member
Post drifts off to debate what TLFS should or could have done differently; what the council should or could have done differently - but I suggest that we all know what JR-M should have done - and that was not suggest that the residents of Grenfell Tower should have ignored the advice they were getting from TLFS. But he did. And that was wrong. And as for Budgen...
They can say sorry as much as they want - but I suggest that the two of them might largely be sorry for having revealed what they believed. So why might we now accept that - with their thinking now having been 'found out' - they now think differently about those in that part of society of which the residents of Grenfell Tower are typical. I might be wrong and they might be reformed in their thinking - but I doubt it. I suspect that they will be sitting reasonably comfortably having justified to themselves that what they said was actually OK.
Because in many ways they are no different from the rest of us. When we know we have said or done wrong, something that has hurt others, the easiest thing to do is to say sorry then self-justify and leave it at that. The hardest thing to do is to recognise and fully accept that your thinking was wrong - then say sorry and do something about changing your way of thinking.
Anyway...they'll both most likely be re-elected.
Blimey, you do go on. The words dog, bone and vindictive come to mind.